Today marks the finish line for Dr. Rob Gilbert’s 106-Day Challenge, a diet he put forth on his motivational telephone hotline (973-743-4690). Dr. Gilbert, a sports psychologist, invited his callers to go from Memorial Day weekend to Labor Day weekend without chips, cookies, cigarettes, etc. Yesterday he asked those who accepted the challenge to ask […]
Tom Hughes, a coach and motivational speaker, produces a wonderful newsletter. It’s called “Motivational Moments.” I particularly love this quote from Hughes’ most recent offering: “Dedication is the price you pay to get what you want.” Here is the rest of the passage on dedication: “It is the amount of time you are willing to […]
In 1960, we got tickets to see the Yankees and Red Sox play in a Labor Day double-header. We sat a few rows behind the dugout in Yankee Stadium. Before the game someone arranged for us to go down to the railing and shake hands with Ted Williams. We were Yankee fans and so it […]
Every day all over the country, athletes head to the practice field, where their coach awaits. What kind of experience will those millions of athletes have? What kind of values will they see from their coach? My friend Kevin Reilly sent an article about a high school football coach named Keith Howard, who inspired his […]
As coaches we often find ourselves wishing for more. We wish we had bigger athletes, stronger ones, faster ones. We wish we had bigger budgets and more gym time. In his latest Janssen Sports Leadership Center Update, coach Jeff Janssen writes about someone whose job was to create a top-level school with no extra resources. […]
Many thanks to Jeff Beer for sending this New York Times item on Roger Federer’s footwork. My favorite part is the very beginning. It concerns Federer’s ability to PERCEIVE quickly. The narrator says Federer’s split step begins the moment he sees the opponent’s racquet come forward to hit the ball. This early recognition is a […]